Sumários

Início do estudo de Camões, de Almeida Garrett

2 Fevereiro 2023, 15:30 • Margarida Madureira

Contextualização histórico-cultural. Texto e paratexto. Modelo e originalidade: análise do prefácio à 1ª edição. O palimpsesto camoniano.
Texto:
⁃ Almeida Garrett, Camões: Prefácio à 1ª edição; Canto I, 1-2 e respectiva nota; Canto X.

As I Lay Dying and J. Culler's Literary Theory: What is Literature?

1 Fevereiro 2023, 15:30 • Zuzanna Zarebska

•“A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself”
•“There are so many silly superstitions in the theatre. In life.” (169)

Anagnorisis, also known as discovery, originally meant recognition in its Greek context, not only of a person but also of what that person stood for, what he or she represented; it was the hero's suddenly becoming aware of a real situation and therefore the realization of things as they stood; and finally it was a perception that resulted in an insight the hero had into his relationship with often antagonistic characters within Aristotelian tragedy.

•In Aristotelian definition of tragedy it was the discovery of one's own identity or true character or of someone else's identity or true nature by the tragic hero. In his Poetics, Aristotle defined anagnorisis as "a change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad fortune".

    Does Anagnorisis happen in the text? Is the reason for the conflict understood by the narrator? Or else: does Hamartia stand in the way?

•Hamartia is a mistake or error of judgment, sometimes translated as “tragic flaw” – but for Aristotle it is not a moral defect. It is the result of the circumstances. Is the killing of the cat a tragic error? Is it a flow of the character? Is it the result of the tragic circumstance of the mother’s death, loss and bereavement?
•Tragic flow is the incongruity (disharmony) created when the (tragic) significance of a character’s speech or actions is revealed to the audience but unknown to the character concerned.Peripeteia is a reversal of circumstances, or turning point. The term is primarily used with reference to works of literature. The English form of peripeteia is peripety. Peripety is a sudden reversal.

Name the peripeteia in the short story?

What is literature and what does it do? 

Literature “asks not for a definition but for an analysis” (21). Theory intermingles with ideas from philosophy, linguistics, history, psychoanalysis, literary theory, political theory.... And yet it too has an aesthetic impact. It is an aesthetic object. (Kant, Bridging the gap between the material and the spiritual worlds)

Literature foregrounds language, it foregrounds the complexity and beauty of human nature.

It is “language in which the various elements and components of the text are brought into a complex relation.” (30)

Its “utterances have a special relation to the world (...) fictional.” (31)

Cont.

1 Fevereiro 2023, 14:00 • Maria Forjaz de Sampaio Sequeira Mendes

Discussão sobre The Yellow Wallpaper e início da análise de "A Jury of her peers". 

Os conceitos de arte e de literatura na época contemporânea

31 Janeiro 2023, 15:30 • Margarida Madureira

Surgimento dos conceitos contemporâneos de arte e de literatura no século XVIII. O sistema literário. Factores de institucionalização da literatura. Estado-nação e formação do cânone literário nacional moderno. Canonização e sacralização. Camões na história literária nacional do século XIX.

A noção de literatura

31 Janeiro 2023, 09:30 • Patrícia Soares Martins

O conceito de mimese na Antiguidade e a sua reformulação no século VIII em função da noção de belo (Todorov, 1984).

Leitura de um passo da Poética de Aristóteles ( sobre a mimese ) e de um texto de Diderot ( sobre a imitação artística subordinada ao conceito de belo ).

Leitura do soneto de Sá de Miranda "O sol é grande, caem co'a calma as aves" citado no poema de Ruy Belo "A minha tarde".